The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-15
THE KNIGHTS OF PYTH1As.
The Grand Lodge to Meet in Savannah
This Week.

/ The Grand Lodge to Meet in Savannah
| This Week.
! Tuesday will be n red letter day for the
! Savannah Knights of Pythias. The
/ eighteenth annual convention of the Grand
Lodge of Georgia will convene here. Thecity
I lodges have been preparing for the enter
tainment of the visiting Knights for some
/ time, and the programme outlined in last
l Sundays MORNING News is about COM
! plete Representatives arriving on the
I early trains over the Savannah, Florida and
I Western will be met at the depot by de-
tachment from DuGuesclin division, under
/ Sir Knight Herald F. T. Einsfeld. The Cen
tral train viii be met by Sir Knight Lieu
tenant Commander, c. A. Cox, with another
detachment.
The representatives will be escorted from
| the depots to the quarters assigned them at
the hotels. The lodges and uniform divis-
| ions Of Savannah viii assemble on South
| Broad street at 8 O'Clock, and will march to
the headquarters of the Grand Chancellor
and escort the Grand Lodge officers to Castle
an address of welcome will be delivered.
Sir Knight Capt. R. F. Harmon win he
Grand Marshal OF the day. At II O'Clock
the Grand Lodge viii be called 70 order and
the regular order of business begun.
In the afternoon the uniform divisions
will assemble on South Broad street at 3
| O'Clock, and will march to the Park extern
sion, where the prize drill and review will
take place. 1t IS expected that six divisions
will take part in the drill.
Sir knight Capt. r. F. Harmon will COM
| mand DuGuesclin Division and Sir Knight
Capt John Juchter Teutonia Division.
Calanthe Division, of Atlanta, is COM
rnanded by Sir Knight Capt. J. NJ Hunni-
cult, and the Capital City Division, of At
III. L.
The judges OF the prize drill viii be Capt.
H N Branch and Lieut. J. F. Brooks and
Lieut. r. s. Nell, of the Savannah Cadets.
In the evening complimentary ball will
be given the visiting Knights and ladies by
DuGuesclin Division at the Guards Armory.
On Wednesday a picnic will be given at
Greenwich Park for members of the order
and their families.
The Knights of Pythias order was
organized in Washington twenty-five
years ago and it now stands second or
third in the rank of secret organizations in
the country. In Europe it is also growing
rapidly. It's principles are friendship,
charity, benevolence and fraternity. The
Grand Lodge Of this State is composed of
the Past Grand Chancellors, the Grand
Chancellors and grand officers, and two rep
resentatives from each of the twenty-one
subordinate lodges. All Past Chancellors of
subordinate lodges are entitled TO member
ship in the Grand Lodge. The present grand
officers are: Past Grand Chancellor, Claude
Estes, Gainesville; Grand Chancellor, A. NJ.
Haywood, Brunswick; Grand Vice Chan
cellor J. NJ. Hunnicut, Atlanta; Grand
Prelate, w H Pease Columbus: Grand
Keeper of Records and Seal, William H.
Bourne, Savannah; Grand Master of Ex-
chequer, II. NJ. Hill, Augusta Grand Mas
ter-at-Arms s. c. Lee, Savannah; Grand
Inner Guard, q. q. Lay, Gainesville; Grand
Outer Guard, Robert P. Paul, Darien.
The following is the list of lodges, number
of members and names of representatives
that will be in attendance:
Forest City No l, Savannah, 102 mem
bers; r. r. Booz, J. H. Fox, representa-
tives.
Vigilant No 2, Augusta, 100 members;
Henry w. bosch, j. W. Nichols.
Central City No 3, Macon, so members;
]. II. Bremen, c. J. Stroberg.
Myrtle No. 6, Savannah, rs members; E.
J. Grady, John O'Keefe.
TeutOnia No Z, Savannah, 90 members;
H 7. Sutler, George Campsen.
Excelsior No. 8, Savannah, 81 members;
w. j. Pierce. a. S. Spinning.
Atlanta No. 2. Atlanta, 81 members. (No
report Of representatives received.l
Ivanhoe No. u, West Point, 40 members.
w. II. Stywald, -,
Stonewall No IS, Columbus, % members;
- L. ItlIOuu. Il.
Oglethorpe No. "A, Brunswick. no report
of membership or representatives,
Stephenson No. 20, Gainesville, 80 mem
beTS; j. 7. HollanaI,
Wakefield No. q, Waycross, IS members;
Y. L. Stanton,
Calanthe No. 2S, Savannah, so members;
]. G. Schwartzbaum, J. E. Freeman.
Inverness No. 90, Darien, 81 members
J. @. Legare, r. H. Knox.
Artesian City No. 80, Albany, 81 men,
bers; Daniel Meyer, George w. Coates.
Star No. 81, Townsville, % members;
Herman Wise, w. r. Mcintyre.
Decatur No. 80, cambridge. NO report
of membership or representatives.
Capital City No. 81, Atlanta, 100 mem
bers. NO report of representatives.
w H. Hofer, r. H. Crawford.
Fountain City No. So, Augusta, As mem
bers; G.. J. Strauss,
Satilla No. 5, Jesup. (No report of men,
bership or representatives..
Grand Chancellor Haywood and family
will arrive tomorrow. The Grand Chan
cellor's headquarters will be at the Marshal
House Supreme Representatives d. B.
| Woodruff of Macon, and Adelph Brandt, of
Atlanta, and other prominent members of
the order viii also be here.
This years convention is expected to be
the largest ever held in the State. The
membership has increased over 500 during
| the past year, and this largely increased
of the uniformed divisions, will call out
large fraternal delegations from all points.
There will be two uniformed divisions
| from Augusta, one from Atlanta, one from
| Brunswick, and the two Savannah
| divisions.